By TESFA-ALEM TEKLE More by this AuthorEthiopia has concluded a nationwide vaccination campaign against measles for millions of children. The World Health Organisation said the country managed to vaccinate 14.4 million children in an anti-Measles campaign that ran only for 10 daysThe UN health agency said the large scale immunisation programme attained 96 percent coverage of the initial target. "The total campaign’s target was 15 million children and it attained 14.4 million coverage showing that even with ongoing the Covid-19 pandemic countries can continue to carry out life-saving mass vaccinations," WHO said in a statement. According to the WHO, health workers were given training before launch of the vaccination that targeted children aged between 9 to 59 months. According to WHO, over 50,000 people, most children under the age of five died from measles in 2018 in the African Region.

Source: Daily Nation July 31, 2020 12:00 UTC